by: Sara Middleton, staff writer | April 26, 2020
(NaturalHealth365) Coronavirus update as of April 25, 2020: over 2.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, over 197,000 deaths, and over 800,000 people who have recovered from the viral respiratory illness, assuming accuracy of the reports. Now, Big Pharma, the World Health Organization (WHO), and others are chomping at the bit to fund, create, push, and profit off vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this pandemic disease.
But there’s one question related to public health officials’ near-obsession with mass vaccination that not many people have thought to ask: does the common flu vaccine increase the risk of falling ill with COVID-19?
NEW research: Flu shot increases your susceptibility to coronaviruses and other pathogens
The flu season in America is waning, if not officially over (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slates the annual flu season as fall and winter, but sometimes extending into May). Unfortunately, the global COVID-19 pandemic is still in effect … and it seems that the fact we’ve long been told to get vaccinated against the seaonal flu adds fuel to this crisis, as you’ll soon see – below.
In a stunning United States Department of Defense (DOD) study just published in January of this year, a researcher confirmed that “receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference.” This finding, supported by additional research dating back to the 2003 SARS epidemic and earlier, “goes against” commonplace assumptions that vaccines don’t change the risk of infection from other respiratory diseases.
The author adds, “Vaccine-derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus